Movie Locations

[RowntreesCabana]

Here's an interesting few videos (IMO) from a guy who visits movie locations, then cuts scenes between then and now. I think they're pretty well done, and being a child of the 80s, I've absolutely loved a few of them.


Stand By Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZD69I-_Kc

Lost Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p6XHd1vcWo

Ferris Buellers Day Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uY3ImudOv8

First Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7pMuaku1o

Edited by RowntreesCabana on Monday 15th October 19:44

[bloomen]

There's something very satisfying about tracking down film locations.

I tracked down the Cave of Cerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail which took some proper finding at the time. When I got there it was littered with stuffed rabbits.

[Tony Starks]

We have the a lot of The Last Samurai locations local to us. The terraced rifle training ground is a local cricket ground and park we often take the kids to.

[ChrisnChris]

I've had dozens of film scenes shot within a stones throw of me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_Abbey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_Wood

And Tilford Wood, opening of Gladiator and closing of Skyfall and many more.

I did invite Tom Cruise over for tea last year when he was filming Mummy, he declined, if no reply can be classed as a decline

[p1stonhead]

Nothing to add apart from saying Stand By Me is just brilliant.

[Alex]

ChrisnChris said:

I've had dozens of film scenes shot within a stones throw of me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_Abbey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_Wood

And Tilford Wood, opening of Gladiator and closing of Skyfall and many more.

I did invite Tom Cruise over for tea last year when he was filming Mummy, he declined, if no reply can be classed as a decline

You must be near me...

[IanH755]

When I was a school kid they filmed part of the Bond movie A View to a Kill at the Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre near my school in Chichester.

It was the small part near the end where Grace Jones character May-Day had taken the bomb out of the "mine" before it exploded so we all got to line up the edge of the quarry and watch as the pyro guys blew up the Cart and a dummy which was pretty cool.

[geeks]

I used to work in the building labelled as the Daily Planet in some film or another!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368J2GJQs3M

Milton Keynes Train station is the UN here! I worked for VMware who are in the building on the right as you face the station! The bit of the building directly under the Daily Planet sign is a Gregs now

[FourWheelDrift]

geeks said:

I used to work in the building labelled as the Daily Planet in some film or another!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368J2GJQs3M

Milton Keynes Train station is the UN here! I worked for VMware who are in the building on the right as you face the station! The bit of the building directly under the Daily Planet sign is a Gregs now

I love the random fire hydrants scattered around in the middle of a pedestrian plaza

[ralphrj]

The interior and exterior scenes of the Carver Media Group HQ featured in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' were filmed at (one of) IBM's offices at Bedfont Lakes.

[stain]

Had lunch opposite Gerald Butler last year when he was filming the latest ‘something has fallen’ movie at Virginia Water lake in Surrey. There were signs along the adjacent roads warning of pyrotechnic devices going off. I wonder where they will claim it to be in the movie proper?

[Smiler.]

I love this game.

The Blue Fin building in Southwark St., London gets used "a lot".

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen the entrance & lobby on the telly.

And the Jolly Woodman in Bucks is featured in nearly every episode of Midsomer Murders, although my mrs would disagree.

[Dr Jekyll]

ralphrj said:

The interior and exterior scenes of the Carver Media Group HQ featured in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' were filmed at (one of) IBM's offices at Bedfont Lakes.

..and the car park scene at Brent Cross shopping centre.

[Alex]

My daughter has just started her degree course at UEA, and as a Marvel film fan, she was thrilled to discover that the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts at the university doubled as the Avengers HQ.

[Civpilot]

The opening scene for Avengers Age of Ultron was filmed in Hawley Woods in the UK. About a quarter of a mile from my folks house (they were hearing more explosions than normal for the weeks they were filming).

In fact the bit where Captain America rides his bike over a jump and round a banked corner... that was 'our' BMX track which a bunch of us from my school made when we used to use the woods as kids. It's a downhill snaking track and we marked it out with sticks first, then *may* or *may not* have dug dips slightly bigger to make jumps and piled the dirt we *may* have dug out to make the corners (obviously you not allowed to dig up army land so this is all hypothetical )

I remember going into the movie waiting to see if I could figure out the bits they filmed in 'my' woods and then seeing 'Cap riding a section of our track. I was even better when I watched it again and sat there thinking "he took the wrong line on that corner"

[Alxxx]

Living near to Burnham Beeches and Black Park everywhere is a movie location! Robin Hood, Harry Potter, nearly every ITV drama series, Carry Ons, Bond etc.

A man was very unhappy once when my dog chased a squirrel onto the Hogwarts Express.

[viggyp]

Could see my old work place (pfft) in the background during an ep of Luther.

Live very near where they filmed The Professionals and Face with Ray Winstone and Damon Albarn

My local pub was used for The long Good Friday, Spider, The Fourth Protocol, Chaplin amongst others

My fave pub (dive bar) in New York is Vasacs (Horseshoe Bar) which is where they filmed the infamous "She's not a Shiela" scene from Crocodile Dundee, Godfather 2 and The Verdict with Paul Newman.

[Shakermaker]

I went to a wedding at Stoke Park golf club, where Sean Connery's Bond takes on Goldfinger in a round of golf.

Later, Pierce Brosnan's Bond does that scene with Paris Carver in one of the bedrooms

[sandman77]

When I was younger I spent a year working in Nassau, Bahamas and my boss (and owner of the biggest construction company in the Bahamas) owned and lived in this house:-

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@25.0733589,-77.4423...

This is the house that was used in the Bond movie Thunderball (with the shark pool that connected to the swimming pool). The house did have two pools, one was a fresh water swimming pool and the other a sea water pool/pond for fish.

[Dr Jekyll]

Shakermaker said:

I went to a wedding at Stoke Park golf club, where Sean Connery's Bond takes on Goldfinger in a round of golf.

Later, Pierce Brosnan's Bond does that scene with Paris Carver in one of the bedrooms

Also a major location in Layer Cake.